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Jail expansion $3 million over budget

Even as contract workers prepare to pour the second-story floor of the long-awaited but complicated Kitsap County jail expansion, officials are reporting the projects costs are up to $28.5 million  a $3 million, or 12 percent increase over earlier estimates.

Reaction to the overruns is mixed. Most county officials say that, while the increase is unanticipated, it is normal in a complex expansion project and the public should know about it. Others are taking a harder line.

Were looking at what has created that (increase), item by item, said County Commissioner Jan Angel, who chairs key countywide emergency management and public safety boards. The money is there to support it, but thats not the point. The question is how did it happen and what do we do now to offset it.

At the start of the new year, Administrative Services Director William Nogle said the jail expansion project would

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